Okay, well good morning and welcome. Been looking forward to our study in Second Thessalonians and today we're going to resume our study through this epistle. We want to welcome those of you that are watching online. We have people here in the church. Why don't you let them know your hair. Yeah.

Actually, that was kind of a segue because I've not gotten used to,

nor do I ever want to get used to just talking into a camera.

So I don't want you to take a personal because now there are people in the church. So if I don't look at you, it's not personal. I'm actually, I just missed you so much.

So glad that you're here. Second Thessalonius chapter one is going to be our text and

we're going to finish the chapter

today. We left off some time ago now in verse 10 of chapter 1, so we'll pick it up in verse 11,

and our text will be verses 11 and 12. Now, for those of you here locally, if you are able, I will ask you to stand.

You can follow along as I read.

The text, the Apostle Paul is writing to this church in Thessalonica, and by the Holy Spirit

says in verse 11, with this in mind, we constantly pray for you that our God may make you worthy

of his calling and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith.

We pray, verse 12, this, so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you and you and Him,

according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Let's pray if you would join with me.

Lord, thank you for your word. Thank you for this portion

that we have before us today. Thank you that we can assemble ourselves together as a church. Open

up your word. And in so doing, open up our hearts, our eyes, our ears to receive that which you have for us today.

So Lord, speak into our lives we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. You can be seated. Thank you.

So I want to talk with you today about prayer.

And specifically as it relates to how we pray, how we pray now, with everything that's happening in the world today. In the text that's before us today,

the Apostle Paul is writing to the Christians in Thessalonica concerning how he has been praying for them. And it's very interesting that Paul

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